The Jubaland State President, H.E Ahmed Mohamed Islam condemns the cowardly act in the UN complex in Mogadishu by Al-Shabab terrorist, where innocent people have lost their lives. The purpose of this heinous act to disrupt relative calm that Mogadishu enjoying for the last few months. However, this will not dislocate the efforts to recuperate [...]
Mogadishu, June 19, 2013 (SDN) — South African state weapons firm Denel said two of its staff were killed in an attack on Wednesday on the United Nations compound in the Somali capital Mogadishu. A spokeswoman for South Africa’s largest manufacturer of defense equipment said the identity of the workers was not yet known. “We [...]
Continue reading …Mogadishu, June 19, 2013 (SDN) — United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon is “shocked” at the news of an attack on a UN compound in Somalia on Wednesday, his spokesman said. “The Secretary-General is aware of the attack against the United Nations in Somalia, and he is shocked by it,” Martin Nesirky, the spokesman, said in [...]
Continue reading …Mogadishu, June 19, 2013 (SDN) —At least 14 people died and 15 others were wounded in an attack on the U.N. headquarters in the Somali capital of Mogadishu on Wednesday. Seven militants, four U.N. employees and three female civilians were killed, said Abdikarim Hussein Guled, the country’s interior and national security minister. The other victims [...]
Continue reading …19.June (SDN) The vice president of Somaliland Md. Abdirahman Abdilahi Ismail Saylici has arrived Borama yesterday, the vie president and his delegates are warmly welcomed at Dila district to the Governor of Awdal, region, Mayers of Borama and Dila, other senior government officers, cultural elders, local government counselors and different parts of the community. [...]
Continue reading …Hargeisa, June 18, 2013 (SDN) –- A woman was allegedly murdered in cold blood by unknown assailants at Jigjiga yar village in Hargeisa last night. The slain woman was said to have been murdered moments after she had descended the bus. She was said to have been stabbed several times on the lower part of her [...]
Continue reading …Kabul, June 18, 2013 (SDN) –- NATO troops in Afghanistan officially passed security responsibility to national forces at a ceremony in Kabul today, marking an important transition in the country’s 12-year war. “Today is a historic day for Afghanistan,” President Hamid Karzai said, standing alongside NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen. The transition began in July [...]
Continue reading …Addis Ababa, June 18, 2013 (SDN) –- Ethiopia and Egypt have agreed to hold further talks on the impact of a huge Ethiopian dam project to quell tensions between the two countries over water-sharing. “We agreed that we will start immediately on consultations at both the technical level… and the political level,” Egyptian Foreign Minister Mohamed Kamel [...]
Continue reading …Piracy off the coast of West Africa has now overtaken Somali piracy, a report by the International Maritime Bureau (IMB) and other seafarers’ groups says. It says 966 sailors were attacked in West Africa in 2012, compared with 851 off the Somali coast. West African pirates mostly steal fuel cargo and the crews’ possessions, often [...]
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